All Booked Up started out as a book review blog. Now its a more general one. Posts on whatever calls my interest. There will, however still be some book reviews.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

What Would You Recommend? - Guy Gavriel Kay

This is a question I get asked all the time working in the bookstore: "What would you recommend for somebody who loved "_________"? (fill in the blank)" Usually I can come up with something, but that something can be a bit of a wild guess if it's not a book or genre I normally read. This is where you helpful people come in. If you have a suggestion, I'd love to hear it.

This week I'm partly asking for myself. I just finished reading Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay's latest book and I quite enjoyed it, although it was very different from most of the novels I read. It's the only one of his books other than the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy that I've read (and that was years and years ago), although I do have a copy of The Last Light of the Sun on my Unread Books List. I'd like to know what other authors you might suggest as I might like to read them myself.

Guy Gavriel Kay writes fantasy overlayed onto history, or is it history overlayed onto fantasy? Either way, he takes a particular culture and uses it as the basis for the people and worlds he creates. He's done Byzantium, the Vikings and the Chinese that I remember, and I think also the ancient Celts. The books are very detailed and feel quite 'real'.

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I love books, especially science fiction/fantasy and history books.
Primarily, I read fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction and
non-fiction history books.
As of Spring 2009, I now have my B.A. with my major Classical Studies and my minor in Medieval Studies.
I am a professional back-of-the-book indexer specializing in Classical and Medieval Studies and also in general history. I am quite happy as well to work on most general interest subjects as well. My website is at quillandinkindexing.comWhen I write about the Kobo E-reader, it is information gleaned from my personal experience. I am not affiliated with Kobo in any way.